Biden delivered his remarks hours after the Pentagon confirmed suicide bombers had inflicted the deadliest attack on US forces in Afghanistan in a decade
President Joe Biden responds to a question from a reporter at the White House in Washington on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, about the situation in Afghanistan, after explosions caused casualties and rattled the area outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
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WASHINGTON — It was exactly what President Joe Biden feared most.
His decision to end America’s longest war was driven, he had said repeatedly, by his determination not to sacrifice even one more member of the military on behalf of an effort he had long believed was no longer in the interests of the United States.
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